ReviewEFORT open reviews2021
Acute osteoarticular infections in children are frequently forgotten multidiscipline emergencies: beyond the technical skills.
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- Solitary infantile myofibromatosis of the extremities: a multicenter case series with descriptive analysis of recurrence and β-catenin expression.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2026Article
- A model for predicting the likelihood of negative culture results in children with osteoarticular infections.European journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Predicting the presence of adjacent septic arthritis in children with acute hematogenous osteomyelitis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- An Evaluation of a Syndromic Molecular Panel in Optimising the Microbiological Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy of Suspected Osteoarticular Infections in Paediatric Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A scoping review of mycetoma profile in Egypt: revisiting the global endemicity map.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2023Article
- Bone transport in the management of post-osteomyelitis femoral defects in children: A case series with a minimum of 10-year follow-up in Uganda.Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2022Article
- The unrelenting tide of osteoarticular infections in children: reflections from Uganda, eastern Africa.Journal of bone and joint infection · 2022Article
- Acute Arthritis in Children: How to Discern between Septic and Non-Septic Arthritis?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Acute osteoarticular infections (AOI) should be treated as top emergencies. The first few days following the inception of infection are ultra-critical to long-term prognosis.A comprehensive road map for management of childhood AOI is still lacking despite recent advances in microbiology and imaging (magnetic resonance imaging). The many faces of childhood AOI warrant a multidiscipline approach to management.Laboratory and imaging findings of are still debatable and should not overshadow or delay a management plan based on the experienced physician's clinical judgment.Ample evidence-based practice supports the use of a few days of intravenous antibiotic administration followed by oral therapy until correlative clinical and basic laboratory (acute phase reactants) results improve.The growing body of evidence on 'high-risk' children/neonates of AOI warrants continual clinical extra-vigilance in identifying these patient subsets.Open drainage and debridement remain the mainstay of treatment of septic hips, whereas for other joints the use of alternative surgical techniques should be individualized or on case-by-case basis.Because the consequences of misdiagnosis of AOI are usually grave and permanent, proactive treatment/overtreatment is justified in the event of unconfirmed but suspicious diagnosis. Cite this article:
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